Good morning, Luke, Isn't this another job for tar? I see a -p for preserve permissions, as well as a --same-owner switch. It would seem that exactly this situation would have been a common user requirement historically for tar. Luke Davis writes: > If rsync is used to backup data for multiple users, on to a system whereon > the recipient for the files, is a single user, rsync will, of course, set > the user and group of all files, to the recipient user. > > If dealing with a large number of users, it is less than ideal, to create > all of the users on the target backup server. > > Is there any way to do such backups, in the rsync method, while still > preserving ownership data, but without creating all of the users involved? > Some sort of meta ownership data. > > If not, what might be another method of doing this? > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Chair Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040
